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I have a strange work schedule right now, working on a grant. Over the past few days I just watched a Jacques and Julia cooking at home show when I needed to wind down for a moment. I really have to say that I think I learn more from 2 of these shows than from a whole week of Foodnetwork. And on top of it I get to see two people who respect each other - and the food, who know what they are doing, don't need foul language, who are funny and very much down to earth. I am really not one of the 'everything was better in the past' people, but shows like that make you wonder when you compare them to some of the junk you see on TV these days...

I just recently did my 3rd ballottine last week. They are getting better with practice, weird, huh?
I was talking to my next door neighbor, who is a James Beard award winner, and he said that he has to teach ballottine/gallottine to the people that he teaches, even though they will never use it. I told him they should just start serving it!

Spike C
"The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain."
Pirsig